The second break came less than an hour later, at 3:30, when the market shut for the day a half hour early.
And although the ECB has not solved the euro crisis, it has made a traumatic break-up less likely.
Relationships, which used to last 15 or 20 years now break down in less than 3 years, on average.
They are also trying to fine-tune their network spending so they can more-or-less break even on providing basic access.
In some metro areas where home values fell dramatically during the housing recession, homebuyers break even after less than two years of owning a home.
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It is a common refrain from bankers that the euro area no longer functions as a single financial market, although that has the paradoxical advantage of making a break-up less destructive.
But as tough as they may want to make the locks surrounding their high-definition content, pirates will be all too eager to break into vaults guarding less valuable booty.
Take, for example, the hints that Obama wants to expand his job-subsidization efforts to the private sector by giving employers a tax break to make it less expensive to hire workers.
If asked, and I have been asked about this, I cannot say that we clergy deserve this tax break any more or less than any other group with some pull in D.
News of the Wilkins ice shelf's impending break-up came less than two weeks after the United Nation's Environment Program reported that the world's glaciers are melting away and that they show "record" losses.
Its distinctive square bottle was less likely to break when packed tight, and easy to spot across a smoky bar.
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Using flexible plastic instead would be lighter, cheaper and less likely to break in a laptop computer that was dropped.
The study found that volunteers with two copies of the "val" gene were better able to break down dopamine and suffered less pain.
We will no doubt see some great microstudios and indie games coming from this break-up, but less well-reported will be the struggles to make mortgage payments.
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The manner in which we have managed livestock for centuries results in both carbon and water moving from soil to atmosphere, and to soil life being less able to break down methane.
It may be that parliamentarians, sensing this mood in their constituencies during their break, will return even less willing to help Mr de Villepin and his government make a Houdini-like escape from its travails.
After I wrote that our boys drive my dumpy '92 Saab, parents emailed saying they felt they needed to provide their girls with cars that were less likely to break down on a dark street.
As the crisis drags on, a break-up of Belgium looks less unthinkable than it was.
Sometimes people do break out - though usually in less dramatic fashion than in the Canadian incident.
Japanese women are also less deter mined to break down traditional sex roles.
In more than three-quarters (75 percent) of metros analyzed, a homeowner would break even after three years or less of owning a home.
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Where all the statistical arguments proving more guns equal less crime fail to break through emotional points of view, this living image just might have a chance.
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It's the "Draghi effect" that has convinced the markets that, despite all the problems in Europe, the nightmare scenario of a eurozone break-up is now much less likely to come true.
Obviously there are exceptions for titles like Call of Duty which will break records regardless, but for less obscenely popular titles, the price point is starting to lose them customers as they seek out cheaper alternatives.
The plumber would consume the better part of the morning driving to each job site to see that each employee takes their break, leaves the area of work, and stays away from the area of work for not less than the statutory duration of the break.
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The visitors took less than two minutes to break the deadlock after the half-time break.
That makes sense, because the more flexible a bone is, the less likely it is to break.
To avoid that, Germany could well agree to pay for a transfer union, either believing that the transfers needn't be permanent, or hoping they'd be less expensive than a euro break up.
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By assuring "journalists" - the bill's definition is broad enough to cover all of the first three categories described above - they need not fear having to divulge the source of a leak, sources will feel even less compunction than they do today to break their promises and leak with impunity.
MOOC, his idea was to break down his lectures into twenty-four lessons of less than an hour each.
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